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Title: West Port Experiment | On parish missions, the care of souls, and all things Reformed

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The following chapter comes from Charles Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students. I remember reading this chapter after a season of pastoral burnout and finding it such a tonic to my weary soul. It certainly also speaks to the sensitivity that such great men had for the real struggles of emotional and mental health from a […]

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Just finished Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging. A really thought-provoking, short non-fiction book that explores how bankrupt modern society is in meeting our deeper needs for identity, social belonging, and human purpose. Writing from firsthand experience in warfare, he reflects on the paradox of how men actually find hidden blessings in their battlefield “bands of […]

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The following taken from Book 2, Chapter 4 of Aaron’s Rod Blossoming, pp. 184-194. * * * * CHAP. IV. Of the agreements and differences between the nature of the Civil and of the Ecclesiastical Powers or Governments. Having now observed what our opposites yield to us, or we to them, I shall for further […]

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The following selections are taken from George Gillespie’s Aaron’s Rod Blossoming (1646). * * * * 7. That there is a distinction between Magistracy and Ministery, even Jure Divino. That the civill Magistrate hath not power to abolish or continuate the Ministery in abstracto at his pleasure; nor yet to make or unmake Ministers in […]

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The following is a chapter in Thoughts on Religious Experience (1844) by the first president of Princeton Seminary, Archibald Alexander. One of my all-time favorite books and a high-watermark treatment of the subject from a confessionally Presbyterian perspective. This particular chapter deals with the sensitive and difficult subject of “melancholy” and “insanity,” or what we […]

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